Director IT Infrastructure & Operations

American Century Investments • Dallas, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience, helping clients achieve financial goals through expertise in global equities, fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments. The company is privately controlled and independent, focusing solely on investment management. Uniquely, 40% of its dividends, totaling over $2 billion since 2000, are directed to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research to support breakthrough work in defeating life-threatening diseases. The Director, IT Infrastructure & Operations will lead the strategic direction, implementation, rollout, and enablement of shared technology and platforms, including Cloud, at ACI. Reporting to the VP of Information Technology, this role involves leading a team to build an industry-leading, state-of-the-art technology platform. The Director will play an integral leadership role in strategic decision-making, partnering with stakeholders across the company to build and deliver on a roadmap that includes enterprise-wide adoption of next-generation Cloud, ML/AI, API, Agile/DevOps, Quality, and other platforms and tools. The position requires a passion for growing and developing teams, the ability to attract, motivate, retain, and develop a team, excellent business and interpersonal skills, and support for business partners in prioritizing work. The ideal candidate is deeply technical, inquisitive, authentic, optimistic, and transparent. This is a hybrid position based out of the Dallas office and is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems, or related field.
• A minimum of 10 years application development and support experience with at least three years in an executive leadership or managerial capacity.
• Expertise with building technology systems in the Cloud, with APIs & innovative technology platforms
• Experience building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships.
• Experience using Agile Methodologies.
• Demonstrate high level of proficiency in the following competency areas: AWS Platform & Services, API/Microservices, Enterprise Applications & Platforms, Agile Methodologies, Accountability (for self and others), Result Orientation, Personal Leadership, Business Adeptness, Client Orientation, Project/Program Management, Teamwork, and Technical Leadership.
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with AWS Cloud native solutions and hybrid cloud solutions
• Experience working with Python, Java or Scala programming languages
• Experience working in a Financial Services firm, specifically Asset Management
• Experience leading AI/ML, Data, API, and UI platform development

Responsibilities

• Provide vision, develop the roadmap, strategy and leadership for the successful execution of all platform engineering initiatives, and our continued transition to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Own the strategy, architecture, planning and provision of compute, storage, network and core infrastructure for public and private cloud
• Ensure delivery of on-time team initiatives and develop/track/maintain budget to ensure commitments to other teams, and the firm as a whole
• Improve the predictability, efficiency, and transparency of platforms for stakeholders
• Ensure the operational stability, performance, and security of the shared platforms.
• Ensure clear direction, proactive communication, develop and maintain healthy collaboration between all groups (external and 3rd party vendors) involved with Platform Engineering initiatives to provide a complete, integrated technology platform for the firm
• Work closely with the software development team focusing on rendering strategy, pipeline infrastructure and internal software deployment process and strategies.
• Work with Finance to plan, budget and track costs for elastic infrastructure used by shared platforms from cloud service providers.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO
• Competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• Formal mentorship program
• Live and online learning

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director